Aldeburgh Music

If you have visited Snape Maltings recently, you can’t have failed to see the changing skyline as we bring more wonderful old maltings buildings back to life. We are now on the last lap of our fundraising for this landmark project.

When complete the Aldeburgh Music campus will be one of the major music centres where musicians of all levels, whether school age, recently graduated or established stars can practice, teach, share, learn and perform. 

The benefit to Suffolk and beyond will be very significant not just in terms of music but also in an expansion of our much admired education work and delivering a major economic impact.

The project has gone better than we dared hope. The new studio complex at Snape, the Hoffmann Building, was completed on budget at the beginning of May, and the building was used throughout the Aldeburgh Festival in June.

Read an article about the Hoffmann Building by architect Steve Tompkins

This marks the final phase of our project to transform derelict maltings into inspirational spaces for artists of all genres. Our artist accommodation in Aldeburgh is in full use, the Visitor Centre at Snape opened in June, and work on the Dovecote Studio is now complete. Once sufficient funds have been raised, improvements to the Pumphouse in Aldeburgh will start, while the final phase of building – the Trask Artists’ Café – is happening over winter 2009/10.

We are currently just over £200,000 short of our revised £16 million target, so we are now at a stage when all donations, however small, will make a real difference. 

Please click here for more information, including the different ways you could consider supporting the project, or contact Julia Ransome, Capital Campaign Manager, on 01728 687100 or email jransome@aldeburgh.co.uk